Purpose of the webinar
This webinar is designed to explain the proposed changes, the problems that the proposal will solve, the goals of the proposal and alternatives the committee considered. The webinar will also detail revisions made in response to issues raised regarding the document originally published for public comment in January 2016, including the following:

Stricter qualifying criteria and extension criteria for some of the more urgent status categories

Limiting the proposed broader geographic sharing scheme for the most urgent candidates to donation service area and Zone A (instead of through Zone B)

Modification of the pediatric donor allocation sequence to mitigate the impact to pediatric candidates of changes to adult heart allocation policy

Clarification of the types of mechanical circulatory support devices that qualify for each status